[cod] start/stop script

[escapedturkey]

 From my understanding -9 makes sure the process is killed vs. just 
hanging around. If you allow the process to kill itself cleanly, it may 
just hang and you can end up with multiple dead processes -- that is my 
experience.

Jarkko Mäntylä wrote:
> On 10.12.2009 08:36, escapedturkey wrote:
>> Which ideas? The kill -9 -1?
>>
>> If he's running the game server as a user (in usermin) the kill -9 -1 is
>> perfect for clean-up, otherwise you'll have multiple processes running
>> every-time you start the game server. Did I miss something?
>>
>> Also, the original poster of this thread and I know each other. :)
>>
> 
> Using SIGKILL (-9) prevents any process to do any clean-up, you only use
> it with broken programs. If the user is only running gameservers that
> all need to be stopped at the same time then using -1 group might be
> good idea.
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